Improvement in boots and shoes



plate.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ONESIPPE PAOALIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,698., dated June 19, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O. PACALIN, ot' the city, county, and State of New York, have made a certain new and useful Improvement in Boots, Shoes, Src.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation of the same, sufcientto enable one skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the laccompanyin g drawings, which are made part of this specification, and in which the same letters in the different figures refer to corresponding parts.

Figure I is a central vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is an upper view ofthe inner Fig. 3 is a side view ofthe plates with the leathern portions ot' the sole andthe upper removed.

The improvement consists of' an inner and outer plate, preferably ot' metal, between which the soleis fastened by bolts or rivets, a heel projecting down from the lower plate, and containing a heel-plug, which is fastened by a bolt, which penetrates both the upper and lower plates, being reached through an openingin the lower surface ofthe heel-plu g or thc upper surface ot' the inside plate.

In the drawings, A A is the inner plate, or upper plate, as it may be appropriately called, and B .B is the lower or outer plate. These embrace between t-hem the sole C and the lower portion of the split insole, and are attached by the rivets or bolts D D D.

The upper-leather of the shoe is fitted and brought down in the usual Way and whipped together, being embraced between the plates A B, the upper one being covered with the upper portion of the split insole.

From the lower plate, B, projects a heelsocket, E, which is strengthened by an anglepiece, F, at its forward edge. The socket contains a plug, G,ofany suitable material, which is secured by a bolt, H, whose head is on the upper side of plate A and whose neck is in the recess I of the heel-plug 5 or the heel-screw may have two nuts, one inside the heel, to fasten together the two metal plates, and the other outside the heel, to fasten to the same base such substance as may be inserted into the cavity ofthe heel.

Having described my invent-ion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe combination of the inner and outer plates, A B, heel-socket E, plug G, bolt H, and fastenings DD, &c.,constructed and arranged substantially as described and represented.

The above specification of my improvement in boots, shoes, clogs, Ste., signed this 26th day of April, 1866.

O. PAGALIN.

Witnesses ALEXE. A. G. KLAUCKE, EDWARD H. KNIGHT. 

